Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-03-17
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

Senator sherman.s southern Trip Starts the
Gossipers ON the Possibilities and Prooa-
bilities of the Next Presidential Cam
paign-SherDan VS.. Blaine ana the Lat-
ter VS.. Cleveland.
WASHINGTON. Man Oh 10.-The Star pub
fishes the following gossip about a Sher-
man s'boom'' growing out of the Senator 5
Southern trip, and about the old tickets,
headed by Cleveland and Blaine in 1883:
The gossip in political quarters to-day
turns upon the possibilities of the 'Sher-
man BOOM His trip to the South is con-
coded to be for the purpose of giving the
boom chance to develop quickly under
the influence of the warm Southern sun.
Messrs. Malone and John d. Wise express
the opinion that John Sherman can carry
the State of Virginia, both at the nomlnat-
ing convention and afterward as to It's
electoral vote. The Ohio chieftain himself
publicly expresses the opinion that the
solid South may be divided in the next
esidential contest His friends say that
during this trip he will throw himself
among the Southern people, and dispel the
erroneous impression that he has no
warmth in his composition. They expect
hum to thaw out in the South and gam
much in popularity. They confidently ex-
pect that he will get the support OF the
delegates of several of the Southern States.
The Blaine men say they are not afraid
of Mr.. Sherman. Representative Brady,
who was Mahone's first lieutenant for SO
long and who has been leader in Virginia
longer than has Malone, does not agree
with him that the State could be carried
by the Ohio man. Blaine, he says, can
carry Virginia against any one the Demo-
Gratis can put up. There is an enthusiasm
aroused at the mention of his name, Not
so he says, with Sherman, he could not
Ctof xphn he
does not know the Southern people.
Blaine's friends say that Blaine is not
pushing himself to the front, but that he
is there and is going to stay. Whatever
work others may do meanwhile, they say,
it will be found at the convention that the
Plumed Knight will be head and shoulders
above everybody else. They contend that
the only question is whether he wants the
nomination. Then they intimate that ii
Mr. Cleveland is to lead the Democracy
again he will want to enter the field
against him.
When all talk is over it may be boiled
down to the quite general belief that
Blaine and Cleveland are to be pltteo
against each other again. Democratic
politicians generally concede that they
can not get away from the man of destiny
that Mr.. Cleveland will stick. One OF
them likened him to a tar baby-''whethei
you nit MIN or mug MIN, ne SUCKS.
The politicians are not better satisfied,
but more tolerant with him. They are in
clined to shut their eyes and accept the
inevitable. Leading mugwumps, with
whom Stan reporter has talked, are
little uncertain as to their own feelln gs as
regards the President. They say that he
has not done in the way of Civil-Service re-
form all that they mad hoped for, yet that
he has done al that he was positively
pledged to do, and they do not know
where they could find a man that could
do more. He has gone further, they
say, than any Republican thought he
would go. and while you may find
one who will say he was shamming, you
will fad fifty Republicans who are fright
ened because they think he has done too
well. Upon the whole, the mugwumps
say they are inclined to accept him. They
estimated that if Mr.. Allison were nomi-
mated against him, he would lose about
half the mugwump votes, possibly more.
Most any Republican except Blaine could
take some mugwumps from Cleveland. If
Mr.. Blaine should be nominated, however,
they say Cleveland would get a much
larger mugwump vote than he did before.